What categories of licensed pins are there?

This is what I have so far:

Movies (multiple)
TV shows (multiple)
Bands (multiple)
Motor Vehicles (e.g., Mustang, Corvette, Harley Davidson)
Musicals (e.g., The Who's Tommy)
Magazines (e.g., Playboy)
Game shows (e.g., Wheel of Fortune)
Comics (e.g., X-Men)
Board Games (e.g., Monopoly)
Celebrities (e.g., Elvira)
Video Games (e.g., Roller Coaster Tycoon)

Then, there are some for which I don't know what category to throw them in, like Ripley's Believe it or Not.

What else am I missing? Has anyone done a licensed pin based on a book, without a related movie or tv show?

#2 8 years ago

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Law

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Generic brand? No Fear would fall into that.

There are also quite a few sports-franchise themed machines of all varieties. Specific event and team-related.

#3 8 years ago

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WWF Royal Rumble / WWE Wrestlemania, sports entertainment pay per views!
Do you need a license for F-14 Tomcat?

#4 8 years ago

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Quoted from Nokoro:
What else am I missing? Has anyone done a licensed pin based on a book, without a related movie or tv show?

Phantom of the opera was based on the book,not the play...but I don't believe it was licensed due to the book being public domain now...

#5 8 years ago

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i think ripleys would fall in the tv show category. even though it has been in many other formats, the tv show was going on when the pin was made.

#6 8 years ago

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stainedundies

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mayfair was based on my fair lady i believe

#7 8 years ago

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stainedundies

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theres an old PM machine i cant recall that was based on the chicago worlds fair.

#8 8 years ago

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stainedundies

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then theres monster bash which is a character license, not any specific movie.

#9 8 years ago

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Quoted from Nokoro:
Then, there are some for which I don't know what category to throw them in, like Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Multi-Media. Ripleys had a TV show, Books, Newspaper space, and a Museum.

#10 8 years ago

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Quoted from cosmokramer:
Phantom of the Opera was based on the book,not the play...but I don't believe it was licensed due to the book being public domain now...

I don't think I've ever played Phantom of the Opera. I guess I always assumed it was based on the musical.

Quoted from Darcy:
Multi-Media. Ripleys had a TV show, Books, Newspaper space, and a Museum.

Fair enough. Multi-media it is.

Quoted from Law:
There are also quite a few sports-franchise themed machines of all varieties. Specific event and team-related.

Quoted from DefaultGen:
WWF Royal Rumble / WWE Wrestlemania, sports entertainment pay per views!

Yep, I missed the sports category, but that certainly includes NBA Fast Break, WWE, etc.

#11 8 years ago

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Not sure movies and musicals need their own category, since both Tommy and WoZ are both. Call them movies.

#12 8 years ago

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Quoted from TunaSled:
Not sure movies and musicals need their own category, since both Tommy and WoZ are both. Call them movies.

I thought Tommy was directly based on the musical given the art work in the pin. Kind of like LOTR is directly based on the movies, not the books.

#13 8 years ago

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Sports:
Events: worlds fair, Spirit of 76
Some can fall in multiple categories. WCS94 would fit in both of the above categories though sports is a better fit.
War: Special Force
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#14 8 years ago

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Quoted from stainedundies:
i think ripleys would fall in the tv show category. even though it has been in many other formats, the tv show was going on when the pin was made.

There have been three incarnations of the show. Robert L. Ripley died making the first one. There was also a radio show. This is in addition to the original cartoons. The game does not appear to take from any of them specifically.

#15 8 years ago

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